christojeffrey/cipher-site

[assignment] implementation of ciphers. used to learn ciphers. part of cryptography

Ruby

decisions

using ruby on rails for running locally.

using vercel serverless functions for deployment.

why not just deploy the ror? I've tried and I don't think vercel supports this.

have I tried other free hosting platform? no.

structure

/ror to run locally
/vercel to deploy
/vercel/functions to hold the controllers used by both the ror and vercel (it was only /functions before, but I had to move it to /vercel/functions to make it work with vercel serverless)

to run

to run locally, run rails s in the ror directolry (stands for ruby on rails)

(install using bundler, bundle install. from the directory with the Gemfile. its like npm install with package.json) ]

to run the front end, go to solid front and run npm install then npm run dev

adding endpoint

local: each file in vercel/api serve as individual endpoints
server: to add route in the local server, add to config/routes.rb and the function in ror/app/controllers/application_controller.rb
do the function inside functions folder.

you must do all 3 to add an endpoint.

notes

you might want to use rbenv for managing ruby versions. vercel uses ruby 3.2.0. at the time of writing, the latest version is 3.3.0